Day in Photos: July 4, 2012

A model presents a creation of Austrian fashion designer Lea Hoschek at the Fashion Week for spring/summer 2013 in Berlin.

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Former President George W. Bush, flanked by his wife Laura, holds a baby at Ngundu health center, a clinic which was refurbished with his help, in Kabwe, North of Lusaka. Bush officially re-opened the clinic which will offer cervical and breast cancer screening to the local community. Bush is in Zambia as part of a cervical and breast cancer awareness campaign.

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A full moon is seen behind the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Two women sit on the side of a street next to a pile of recyclable items in front of to a poster advertising luxury apartments on a street in Hanoi.

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French skipper Gildas Morvan lowers his spinnaker after winning on his monohull “Cercle vert” after winning the second stage of the 43rd edition of La Solitaire du Figaro-Eric Bompard solo sailing race in Saint-Gilles-Croix de Vie, western France.

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Pole dancing teacher Wang Jing (R) conducting a class at her dance studio in southwest China’s Chongqing municipality. A nightclub activity mostly considered the domain of strippers in the United States, pole dancing with clothes kept on is nudging its way into the mainstream Chinese exercise market with increasing numbers of gyms and dance schools offering classes.

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An airplane drops flame retardant to stop the Quail Wildfire from advancing in Alpine, Utah. Fire officials say a wildfire in Utah County destroyed a barn and forced the evacuation of Alpine neighborhoods.

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Lillian Miller of Washington, D.C., reacts as she is escorted by police officers outside a courthouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Miller was jailed May 21, 2012 on charges that she was violating an immigration law. The charges were later dropped but the aid worker who runs a nonprofit that seeks to house Haitians following the 2010 earthquake is still being held on criminal association charges. Miller was supposed to testify before a judge Tuesday but an interpreter never showed up as ordered by the judge.

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U.S. soldiers cut a cake during U.S. Independence Day celebrations in Kabul.

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People admire a giant kinetic structure at the Changi International Airport in Singapore. Claiming to be the world’s largest kinetic art installation, “Kinetic Rain” designed and built by a German team is made up of 1, 216 bronze droplets that transforms into multiple shapes through slow fluid movements.

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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of female punk band, “Pussy Riot”, stands behind bars during a court hearing in Moscow. Three members of the all-woman punk band “Pussy Riot” were detained on February 21, 2012, after they stormed into Moscow’s main cathedral to sing a protest song against Vladimir Putin and criticised the Russian Orthodox Church’s support for Putin.

This combination of pictures shows the series of events leading to a Spanish miner getting engulfed in flammes after pouring petrol from a bridge on a tires and trees fire to cut a road during a miner’s demonstration in El Entrego, inside “Pozo Soton” near Langreo, northern Spain.

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Opposition protesters spray tear gas against riot police in front of the Ukrainian House in central Kiev, Ukraine. Opposition activists have clashed with riot police during a protest against a controversial bill that would allow the use of Russian in official settings in Russian-speaking regions.

A man pulls the tail of a bull to stop it as local villagers watch during a bullfighting festival at Tucheng village in Gao’an, Guizhou province. Local residents have celebrated the festival for more than 300 years.

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People enjoy a high tide on the shore of the Arabian Sea in Mumbai, India. The monsoon rains which usually hit India from June to September are crucial for farmers whose crops feed hundreds of millions of people.

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A lightning strikes over Danube river in the city of Bratislava, Slovakia.

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This combo picture shows 10 finalists for the 10th Rayli cover girl contest in Tokyo. Twenty-year-old Japanese model Kaede Aono (top L) was selected as the Japanese representative for China’s famous fashion magazine beauty contest, which will be held in October in Beijing.